Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer [Blu-ray] (B000VNMMPW)

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Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer [Blu-ray]

Starring: Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Laurence Fishburne, Zach Grenier, Doug Jones
Binding: Blu-ray
Published: 2007-10-02

$11.17

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Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer [Blu-ray]

Editorial Review:

Catch a wave of "terrific adventure" and "non-stop action" (CBS-TV) in this fun and fantastically entertaining smash-hit! "Invisible Woman: Sue Storm and "Mr. Fantastic" Dr. Reed Richards are about to be married when a mysterious alien... the Silver Surfer... crashes the proceedings and heralds Earth's impending destruction. With time running out, the Fantastic Four reluctantly teams up with the nefarious Dr. Doom in a thrilling effort to save our planet!
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is another entertaining romp for the Marvel-superhero franchise. Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd), is treading on thin ice when his fiancée, Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman (Jessica Alba), thinks he's more interested in a series of cosmic phenomena occurring around the earth than in the preparations for their upcoming wedding. Sorry, ladies, but Reed is right. The disturbances are caused by a surge of cosmic power from a mysterious being called the Silver Surfer (an all-CGI creation, modeled by Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne), who not only zooms around the skies on his board, but also has enough power to fight the FF, sometimes by turning their own power against them, not only mixing up Sue and Reed, but also Johnny Storm, the Human Torch (Chris Evans), and Ben Grimm, the Thing (Michael Chiklis). But that's not the worst of it. The Surfer is only an opening act, a herald looking for planets that his master, Galactus, can consume for his sustenance.
With its initial installment, Fantastic Four established itself as the superhero franchise that didn't take itself too seriously, and that continues here. There are numerous moments of laugh-out-loud humor, and the most angst they suffer is whether Sue and Reed will ever be able to live a normal family life. (That, and whether they'll ever really get married, of course.) If Fantastic Four were a normal superhero franchise, the ending would be a knock-down drag-out war with Galactus, featuring the FF in a colossal battle for the planet Earth and the lives of everyone on it. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer... just doesn't do that, and we don't quite get the payoff we expected. Effects are dazzling, but the Surfer looks too metallic, more like a skyriding T-1000 robot. --David Horiuchi
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Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

***BEWARE*** Region A Only...:

Though i still rate this as 2 Star for Amazon Super Saver Shipping and fast delivery. But the BD only works for Region A console. Though, i have bought a lot of BD at Amazon and this is the only BD and Fantastic Four were i can't watch this BD in my PS3. Attention message showing that this movie is encoded to Region A console. So you have been warned.
Hans

Fall of, more like it:

In the interest of full disclosure, let me state for the record that I hated the first Fantastic Four movie. I had once attributed this possible hatred to my projecting issues in my life the day I saw it (i.e. a nasty breakup) onto the movie and this hated it unfairly. Then when this movie began play on HBO, I decided to give it a second chance. My final conclusion was that I would have rather found my ex, and had her dump me all over again than watch FF again. As this is not a review of that movie, I will... more info

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer:

I thouroughly enjoyed this movie. The whole movie is filled with excitment and humor. The graphics were great. The story line was on the money and no one over acting. This was an overall entertaining movie.

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